2024 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting

UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth (#225) to say hello to editor Mark Simpson-Vos and to browse our new titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth!

Congratulations to our American Academy of Religion award winners!

I Cannot Write My Life by Mbaye Lo & Carl W. Ernst won the 2024 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies.

Surgery and Salvation by Elizabeth O’Brien won the 2024 Best First Book in the History of Religions. Additionally, it was a finalist for the 2024 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies.

And be sure to check out these great series:

Where Religion Lives

Series Editor: Kristy Nabhan-Warren
Where Religion Lives publishes ethnographies of religious life. The series features the methods of religious studies along with anthropological approaches to lived religion. The religious studies perspective encompasses attention to historical contingency, theory, religious doctrine and texts, and religious practitioners’ intimate, personal narratives. The series also highlights the critical realities of migration and transnationalism.

Books in the Series Who Is Muhammad? By Michael Muhammad Knight I Cannot Write My Life Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America By Mbaye Lo , Carl W. Ernst Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia By Elizabeth Lhost Hajj to the Heart Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean Scott Kugle China's Muslims and Japan's Empire Centering Islam in World War II By Kelly A. Hammond Muhammad's Body Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage By Michael Muhammad Knight Realizing Islam The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World By Zachary Valentine Wright

Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks

Series Editors: Carl W. Ernst and Bruce B. Lawrence

Highlighting themes with historical as well as contemporary significance, Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks features works that explore Islamic societies and Muslim peoples from a fresh perspective, drawing on new interpretive frameworks or theoretical strategies in a variety of disciplines. Emphasizing systems of exchange that have promoted the creation and development of Islamic identities–cultural, religious, or geopolitical–the series spans all periods and regions of Islamic civilization.

UNC Press is proud to publish the journal Crosscurrents for APRIL (the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life). CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice.

Stop by either our in-person booth or our virtual booth to browse our titles on display! Be sure to use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout to receive our 40% conference discount. And if your order totals over $75, domestic US shipping is FREE.